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bootsmom3's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Racism, Kidnapping, Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Cultural appropriation, Blood, Drug use, Grief, Colonisation, Death, and Genocide
Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Animal death, and Sexual assault
enchantressreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, and Racism
Moderate: Drug use, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Animal death, Rape, and Drug abuse
Minor: Cancer, War, Death of parent, Medical content, and Miscarriage
tinytrashqueen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Torture
Moderate: Child abuse, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, and Death of parent
Minor: Rape and Sexual assault
kerrygetsliterary's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Torture, and Violence
bookswhitme's review
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Drug use
Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture
Minor: Fatphobia
kachina's review
As a fellow white Indigenous (and Oceti Sakowin) relative, I just felt like so much of this book played into strange colonizer stereotypes.
Something in the spirit of it felt...off. I think there’s a lot of nuanced discourse around whiteness and Indigeneity, and a lot of uncomfortable learning, too.
So much of this felt like a white Native pity fest. Not to dismiss the nuances of the particular pain of being ostracized from your own community, I know that pain well, but it feels so centered in this book in a weird way that implicates other non-white or white passing Natives in a way that feels like something an author of this age should’ve grown out of by now.
I also felt like there was some weird lateral oppressive stereotype deployment in terms of how Latinx folks were portrayed but that’s a whole other can of worms.
In all; I wanna support fellow Indigenous creators and writers, but outside of my work this book has really put to the forefront for me how much I don’t think I’ll be reading cishet, white male stories in the future.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, and Physical abuse